Practical observations on the chronic enlargement of the prostate gland, in old people, with suggestions for an improved mode of treatment : to which is prefixed, preliminary remarks on the various other diseases to which the prostate is liable at all periods of life : the whole being illustrated in an appendix, containing numerous cases and plates / by Francis B. Courtenay.

  • Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-1886.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Practical observations on the chronic enlargement of the prostate gland, in old people, with suggestions for an improved mode of treatment : to which is prefixed, preliminary remarks on the various other diseases to which the prostate is liable at all periods of life : the whole being illustrated in an appendix, containing numerous cases and plates / by Francis B. Courtenay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    separately, would totally incapacitate him to treat, with the slightest prospect of success, any one of the numerous disorders to which the genito-urinary organs are liable, so it would, I presume, be, as far as he is concerned, superfluous to give a detailed description of the anatomy of these parts, whilst to the non-medical reader it would he useless, as no account, hoAvever accurate and full, could supply the place of that knowledge which is absolutely essential to the proper understanding of the subject, and which, obtained originally in the dissecting room, still re- quires to be confirmed and brought into operation in the fields of practice, in order to render it available to our successful treatment of the various diseases with which we may have to contend; for however confident we may feel, and in a great measure justly so, from our knowledge of these parts acquired in the dissecting room, and our easy and frequent introduc- tion of instruments in the dead body, yet this informa- tion, though undoubtedly great, is not of itself sufficient to complete our qualifications as practical surgeons ; for it is only by close observations made on the living body whilst labouring under disease—and